Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four-mile course in it at full speed, however, until two days before the race. Then they will be sent for all they are worth, and if nothing happens they are going to make time that will astonish some of the chronic grumblers who are always and forever finding fault with the crew, the coach, the management and everything connected with the navy...
...feel confident that no lower position will be accorded us by the result of the scheduled games. Yet the infield must be more careful in their play. There is no reason for the one run which was given Brown yesterday, but the loose work of the infield. If this fault is remedied, the championship will be ours...
...whole, the crew must be careful about their watermanship; must slow their slides and pay more attention to their work. Another fault, too, is that the men don't seem to have enough life and ambition; the crew should wake up and put more "go into...
...little surprised, though not at all displeased, at the almost brutal attack the Advocate makes in its issue of yesterday on the venerable Harvard Union. To tell the truth, the Advocate's savage strictures seem to me to be the more unfeeling, because they are undoubtedly true; where the fault lies, and how it is to be remedied, is the awkward question which must be soon decided. There is an abuse, quite as had as the rest, which the writer of the editorial in question did not point out, and that is the extravagant and ridiculous language in which...
...that many college graduates of acknowledged intellectual ability are unable to express themselves with ease and fluency when suddenly invited to make a few remarks, and "feel obliged to make many excuses upon their surprise at being called upon and lack of preparation." The criticism is just; and the fault is less excusable when we consider that the ability to speak extemporaneously is not hard to acquire. Practice is the magic that enables most men to arrange and express their thoughts when the necessity for so doing unexpectedly arises. For furnishing this practice, the editorial in question recommends "a class...